Monday, May 30, 2016

Paul Craig Roberts -- There Has Been A Coup In Brazil

In Brazil the country’s largest newspaper has
published a transcript of a secret recording leaked to the newspaper. The words
recorded are the plot by the rich Brazilian elite, involving both the
US-corrupted Brazilian military and Supreme Court, to remove the democratically
elected president of Brazil under false charges in order to stop the
investigations of the corrupt elites who inhabit Brazil’s senate and bring to
an end Brazil’s membership in BRICS. The Russian-Chinese attempt to organize an
economic bloc independent of Washington has now lost 20% of its membership.

Democracy has been overthrown in Brazil as in
Ukraine, Honduras—indeed, everywhere the dirty evil hand of Washington falls,
including the US itself.

The Government of President Dilma Rousseff was
dealing with the corrupt Brazilian elite in a legal, not a revolutionary, way.
This was a strategic error, as neither the Brazilian elites nor their backers
in Washington care a hoot about legality. For them power is the only effective
force.

They used their power to remove Rousseff from
the presidency, demonstrating to Brazilians that their votes are powerless to
determine the government.

The world has seen this so many times. That is
why the French Revolution, Marx, Lenin, and Pol Pot concluded that change was
impossible unless the elites were exterminated.

In Latin America the populist governments that
managed against all odds to be elected bind their own hands by extending the
protection of the rule of law to their bitter domestic enemies, who take
advantage of the protection afforded them to use their power to overthrow the
elected government.

It will ever be so. Without a Lenin, there will
be no change in Latin America or anywhere in the corrupt and elite-controlled
Western world. In the Western world voting is a waste of time. The election
hype is nothing but cover for elite control. Electorates, always
hopeful, never catch on.